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IOGEAR Bluetooth 4.0 USB Micro Adapter, GBU521

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Allows any Windows computer with a USB port to become a Bluetooth enabled computer *
Wirelessly communicates with Bluetooth-enabled computers, printers, tablets, cell phones, headsets, and more
Supports ultra-low power consumption and Bluetooth Low Energy
Supports maximum asynchronous transfer rate of 3Mbps
Supports wide-band audio and A2DP stereo audio wireless streaming
Ultra portable - tiny enough to stay with your laptop
Up to 30ft (10m) maximum wireless range

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Bring Bluetooth Connectivity to your Computer

IOGEAR Bluetooth 4.0 USB Micro Adapter

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Enhanced Bluetooth Features

Transfer even the largest files quickly and easily

The IOGEAR Bluetooth 4.0 Micro Adapter allows users to connect up to three Bluetooth devices together and transfer even the largest files quickly and easily. With the Micro Adapter's lower power consumption; you can enjoy longer battery life on your notebook computer and other devices. This Bluetooth Class 2 adapter is compatible with PC computers.


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Item Dimensions	0.69 x 0.75 x 0.38 in	0.2 x 0.2 x 0.2 in	5.3 x 0.9 x 6 in	0.8 x 0.52 x 0.2 in	5.5 x 3.2 x 0.45 in	0.52 x 0.79 x 0.19 in

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The IOGEAR Bluetooth 4.0 USB Micro Adapter offers Bluetooth connectivity at a fraction of the size of normal Bluetooth USB adapters. About the size of an adult fingernail, the IOGEAR Bluetooth 4.0 USB Micro Adapter allows users to connect to all the latest Bluetooth devices like cell phones, PDAs, mice, keyboards and more. Because the IOGEAR Bluetooth 4.0 Micro Adapter is so small you can easily plug it into your computer without blocking any surrounding USB ports. The IOGEAR Bluetooth 4.0 Micro Adapter allows users to connect up to three Bluetooth devices together and transfer even the largest files quickly and easily. With the Micro Adapter's lower power consumption, you can enjoy longer battery life on your notebook computer and other devices. This Bluetooth Class 2 adapter is compatible with PC computers, and offers a wireless range of 30 feet (10 meter). It is great for a wide range of applications and smaller form factor devices in the healthcare, fitness, security and home entertainment industries. Features: Wirelessly communicates with Bluetooth-enabled computers, printers, PDAs, cell phones, headsets, and more; Allows any computer with a USB port to become a Bluetooth enabled computer; Ultra-low power consumption; Supports dual-mode and Bluetooth Low Energy; Supports maximum asynchronous transfer rate of 3Mbps; Wideband audio support: provides clear perception of voice when using a Bluetooth headset, and enhances the functionality of echo cancellation and noise reduction; 2.4GHz ~ 2.4835GHz ISM Band; Ultra portable - tiny enough to stay with your laptop; Supports A2DP stereo audio wireless streaming; p to 30ft (10m) maximum wireless range; Built-in security to assure the privacy of your communication-pairing, encryption, and authentication

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Bluetooth

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Brand Name

IOGEAR

Item model number

GBU521

Item Weight

0.16 ounces

Product Dimensions

0.8 x 0.7 x 0.4 inches

Item Dimensions L x W x H

0.75 x 0.69 x 0.38 inches

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computer

Computer Memory Type

DRAM

Additional Information

ASIN

B007GFX0PY

Customer Reviews

1,106 customer reviews

3.9 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#19 in Computers & Accessories > Networking Products > Network Adapters > Bluetooth Network Adapters

Shipping Weight

1.44 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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Date First Available

March 22, 2012

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MJG

HUGE WARNING / BUYER BEWARE: Cannot Recommend

August 29, 2012

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No beef with how the adapter works. The adapter itself works fine for me at the moment on Windows 7 and I'm keeping it despite my reservations of IOGEAR practices. I don't like it for the following reason. HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE POST DRIVER INSTALATION SURPRISE & EXPERIENCE with this product. It is absolutely deplorable that something called easybits chat & games installed WITHOUT USER CONSENT during driver installation with absolutely no uninstall option. That is correct: No advance notice that easybits was installing and no uninstall option after its very unwelcome discovery. Had to manually search and delete any references in my system folders and registry to this completely useless and dispicable intusion into my pc.

Did I miss an optout during installation? Don't think so, and I'm not interested in wasting time to test on another pc to confirm.

Copy and paste the following link for experience of reviewer Ericwag at the Newegg site:

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Forkinator

Very poor range, difficult to install, difficult to remove/insert into USB port. Stay away.

December 19, 2017

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Well, after what feels like hours of trying to get the drivers to work ( I kept getting a code 10, the device failed to start error), I was finally able to pair my xbox one controller and my Wii Motion Plus controller to the device. What a nightmare! So many times I had to uninstall and reinstall the drivers. The ones on the disk are not to be used. Just go to the website and download the ones provided there for your version of windows.

The range of this device is absolute rubbish. I get about 3 feet range max on this thing. The device is paired with my Xbox One Controller and I have the BT adapter plugged in front of the computer 1 foot from my face. I sit pretty close to the computer when i play my games and when i have my hands down in a comfortable position, there is ALOT of latency/delay from when i press a button or move in a direction on the xbox controller to the time something happens on screen. If i move the controller closer to the adapter, it gets better but by no means am i going to play with my hands up in front of my face just so i can get good BT signal.

Mainly i wanted to use this for my xbox controller and my Wii remotes to pair to my PC to play games on Dolphin Emulator. I tried it and it paired (had to force pair it through forced bluetooth passthrough in Dolphin) but I didn't play for more than a few seconds because unfortunately if you want to use this device with dolphin, you need to modify the drivers for the device which makes it not pair with anything else besides your wii remotes and ONLY in Dolphin Emulator.

Also, like others have mentioned, the device fits into the USB port with ALOT of force. You are probably going to need pliers to remove it. I'm only giving 2 stars because i cannot deny that it paired with my devices in windows 10 x64. Honestly, just save the headache and buy something else.

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ElHueso aka Bone Idée

An Incredible Surprise!

March 28, 2013

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Since the introduction of Bluetooth I have been underwhelmed with its performance and frustrated with the amount of effort it took to get things working properly. If all I wanted to do was connect a phone to a headset there wasn't any frustration, but when I wanted to use it for stereo sound, file transfer and sync my PIM I was busy creating restore points, installing another driver and rolling back to try again. The only way I could get my PC to do do A2DP or anything else was with the Asus BT211. It took an effort, but it worked. Unless you put it in a Windows 7 laptop. Then you were constantly losing the device, having the device show back up, undoing whatever Microsoft had done and re-installing the BT211 software (and NEVER plug it in until it tells you to). When I went to Windows 8 (with Classic Shell - the best open source savior of start menu) the BT211 had reached its end. With skepticism I bought this (IOGear GBU521). I had searched for Windows 8 drivers/software online but hadn't found anything definite. The tiny CD came with a directory "Win8" with just one file "Setup.exe". I clicked. It ran. It stopped and said, "I don't see any bluetooth stuff". I plugged in the adapter. It finished. I rebooted. No errors in Device Manager. I added my Belkin F8Z492TTP Bluetooth Music Receiver which is AV1 on my Yamaha receiver. Connect! Go to Control Panel -> Sound. Select my Bluetooth link to the Belkin as my default Playback. Music! Very clean, pretty high quality sound playing a flac. Moreover, I can tell the difference between my flac and my mp3 over this connection. The chip is a Broadcomm which is probably what you have in your phone and tablet and ... IT WORKS!

I will be buying more of these. While I already have options to connect various tablets and phones over bluetooth, there are three more laptops in the house that could use this and one more for my media server/HTPC.

There is a lot of crossover between various connections. Like everyone else I have HDMI, Component, Composite, RCA and 3.5mm cables dangling here and there to accommodate my menagerie of media devices. I have WiFi (dual band N), but there are places where bluetooth just works better. And with bluetooth I'm not polluting the neighborhood with my 2.4 ghz radio signals. My adapters are all Class 2 which means they are great at 2 meters and can work (sort of) at 10, but at 30 meters there isn't a peep.

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William

Works really, but two downsides

September 11, 2017

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Pros:
Works on both macOS and Windows perfectly (so yes those hackintosh users, this is a good product to use). You may sometimes have to unpair and pair the devices again upon startup though or just wait a bit.

Cons:
Does not seem to work on Ubuntu for me. I'll update this as I continue to research why this is the case. Due to the inherent incompatibility with Linux distros right now, I gave it a four star.

Also it was REALLY difficult to remove after putting it in one of the ports. It had an extremely tight fit (yes I put it in the port correctly...).

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Ginny R

Possible compatibility issues

July 17, 2016

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Arrived Friday and installed today. Mini CD installed and device found and installed. Rebooted and noticed a HUGE performance hit. I'm running dual Xeon 4core 2.4 with 32 gigs of memory and felt like a dual core. Could not open the application to connect Bluetooth device. Reinstalled and had the same issue. Uninstalled with revo and performance came back. Somethings not right. Might be Xeon, might be RAID, could be anything.......

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APH

Works fine.

The item plugged and played as advertised, and expected. My "old" PC is now Bluetooth operational. Terrific price.

No complaints. So far, so good.

Published 1 day ago

Joseph S.

Works great! This is compatible with Linux Mint 17

Works great! This is compatible with Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa, however, I'm still trying to get A2DP working between this adapter, my Dell laptop and an Onkyo receiver.Read more

Published 2 days ago

ISAAC

Works great, no issues

Purchased for use with Grand Rapids Hx EFIS and their Android phone app. Works great, no issues. Low profile when installed on back of unit.

Published 3 days ago

Joel

Im sitting about 12 ft from the dongle and getting perfect performance. Highly recommend

Plug and play. Plugged into my hackintosh for ise with logitech k760 keyboard and no issues whatsoever. Im sitting about 12 ft from the dongle and getting perfect performance.Read more

Published 4 days ago

MDC

Works on OSX and Windows 10

USB fitting was super tight. I combined this with a USB extension so the adapter wasn't sitting right on my desktop (big metal frame would interfere with signal).Read more

Published 5 days ago

Jake Onwree

Worked flawlessly out of the package with late 2011 MacBook ...

Worked flawlessly out of the package with late 2011 MacBook Pro. Didn't need to do anything other than connect to 4.0 compatible devices. (running OS X 10.11.6)

Published 14 days ago

Kirk C/ Colon

Five Stars

Little Item does a world of good

Published 15 days ago

Amazon Customer

Five Stars

Works great

Published 23 days ago

Jadon

Five Stars

Works awesome! I definitely recommend this if you need Bluetooth in your life!

Published 23 days ago

Mike

Five Stars

OK... Works

Published 25 days ago

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